Hi all,

Sorry to say im posting from Windoze XP but my Linux Mandrake 9.1 doesn't work fully.
After downsizing my NTFS data drive a few gigabytes and creating a new FAT32 drive to be able to share files between both OSs (allthough Mandrake reads NTFS).
The problem happens when I try to load KDE. The startup screen shows and gets up to 'Loading Window Manager' and doesn't get any further.
As I'm pretty much a Linux newbie I don't know where to start fixing this problem.
I can get into the failsafe and IceWM but I want my KDE back.
Please help!

I'm assuming that KDE is freezing when it tries to do its funky drive-icons-on-desktop type stuff.

Assuming this is the case, I'd recommend that your first step be to boot into text mode and edit the /etc/fstab file to comment out the line referring to your new partition.

KDE works now!
Thank you!
Turns out there wasn't an entry in /etc/fstab
so I used Linuxconf to make one and boot it.
Then I noticed I was getting a 'failed' while booting which said I had too little space.
So I deleted the folder I was using to compile wine (took up most of my free space).
I might try compile it again on my new FAT32 drive.
Thanks again!

Hmm, seems that Linux won't mount the drive. To get it to mount using linuxconf I had to set the type to umsdos but it won't display anything in the file manager. How can I change it to FAT32 and what's the type name for FAT32 since I tried FAT & FAT32 and it wouldn't mount.
Thanks anyway.

Fat16/Fat32 partitions are handled by the "vfat" type. mount -t vfat etc.

As for compiling things on a fat32 filesystem, I'd say that's not a terribly good idea. vfat is okay for stashing files, but can't be counted on for proper operation: all sorts of unanticipated things can happen when the permissions aren't UNIX-style.

I got it working by specifying msdos. And I tried compiling which ended with permission problems.
Thanks again.